Chapter 999 Family Trust

Nokia's headquarters is located in Espoo, west of Helsinki. Espoo and Helsinki are almost connected. After leaving Vantaa Airport, everyone arrived at their destination in just over 20 minutes.

Eric only intends to stay in Finland for three days, and it is unlikely that he will come often in the future, so he did not bother too much in terms of accommodation, but chose to stay in a hotel near Nokia's headquarters.

Yoma Ollila and others sent Eric to the hotel, agreed to a welcome lunch at noon, and left first.

After sending Yoma Ollila and others away, Eric returned to the guest room. Caroline and Mayer were taking out a brand-new bed from the suitcase to help him decorate the bedroom.

Counting the time, it was just midnight in the United States. After a ten-hour flight, Eric was also a little tired. He sat on the sofa in the living room of the suite with the script of "Public Enemy" and watched it for a while. Caroline and Mayer Err roughly arranged the bedroom, and Eric walked in.

Caroline walked into the bedroom with a pillow and saw that Eric had kicked off his leather shoes and lay on the big bed, put the pillow on the head of the bed, and said, "Eric, do you want to sleep for a while?"

"Well," Eric nodded. He wanted Caroline to wake him up at noon. Seeing this pretty girl standing beside the bed, he couldn't help but feel a little moved. He stretched out his hand and said, "Come on, give me a hug. ."

Caroline's face immediately turned red. After that night in Lone Pine Town, it was difficult for her to muster up the courage to get close to Eric. After subconsciously looking behind her, Caroline shook her head in a panic: "No, no Well, Mary is still here."

As soon as Caroline finished speaking, Mayer's apparently intentional voice came from outside: "Boss, there is nothing else, I'll go back to the room first."

Hearing the sound of the door opening and closing from outside, Caroline stood beside the bed and blinked a few times, her face even more rosy.

Eric looked at Caroline's shy appearance, so he had to pat next to him and said, "Okay, stop hugging, sit down and chat with me."

Caroline sat down on the edge of the bed very ladylike, looked over with her eyes sparkling, and said, "Eric, when you go to London on the weekend, will you visit your aunt?"

Eric hesitated, feeling the anticipation in Caroline's eyes, and said, "Okay, does she live in London now?"

"Well, my aunt moved back. She lives in Paddington."

During the few days when Olivia arrived in Los Angeles, the two did not communicate much, and Eric was inevitably a little more curious at this time, and asked, "What did she do in Greece before?"

Caroline paused for a while before she understood, and said, "My aunt said in her letter before that she opened a small shop on Mykonos Island in the Aegean Sea, which specialized in selling clothes she made by herself. The island is very beautiful. Some people say that it is the closest place to heaven, and my aunt lives on that island most of the time. However, later, my aunt thought that the tourists who came to the store to buy clothes were too vulgar, so she closed the store. Other times , My aunt likes to travel, she carries a picture frame on her back and paints in many places. My aunt is a graduate of Cambridge School of Art. She now opens a gallery in London, and we can go to see my aunt's paintings in a few days."

If you don't consider other things, listening to Caroline's narration, Eric feels like listening to the daily life of a proud and casual noble lady.

"Well, doesn't she need to earn money to support herself?"

Caroline blinked, her mouth curved, and said, "No need, there is an aunt's share in the family trust that grandpa left behind."

"Oh, this world is really unfair," Eric waved his hand and said, "Go away, I want to stay away from you rotten aristocrats."

"Hehe," Caroline laughed softly, reached out her hand boldly and shook Eric's hand, and quickly let go shyly, whispering: "My aunt told me privately, although you don't She will care, but she still intends to leave this trust fund to you in the future."

Eric pretended to be excited: "How many are there?"

"I'm not too sure," Caroline shook her head, thought about it, and said, "Probably, about 100 million pounds.

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If ordinary people suddenly heard that they had 100 million pounds of property to inherit, they would probably go crazy. At this time, Eric didn't care too much, but he was still a little surprised by the background of the Wilson family: "According to this standard, It seems that I have to be nice to little Carly in the future, or you may fire my boss without caring at any time."

The corners of Caroline's mouth curved up again, her expression a little naive: "I've thought so for a long time."

"Okay, it's almost time, you go back to your room to rest first, and we will go to dinner together at noon."

"Well," Caroline nodded, her eyelashes flickered, she mustered up the courage to lean over and kissed Eric's face before leaving with a blushing face.

If it were distributed according to the shareholding, Nokia could not be regarded as a Finnish company for a long time. However, Nokia's place of registration, global headquarters, tax settlement, major management and even a large part of its industrial chain are all concentrated in Finland, and the National Bank of Finland is also the second largest shareholder of Nokia after Firefly Investments. Therefore, Nokia actually Still a Finnish company.

In recent years, with the rise of Nokia's telecom equipment and mobile phone business, the company has become increasingly important to Finland as a whole. Therefore, the visit of Eric, the actual controlling owner of Nokia, caused a sensation all over Finland.

The banquet at noon was attended by not only most of Nokia's management, but also a group of officials from the Finnish government and the city of Espoo. Several TV stations in Finland also specially reported on the reception lunch.

In the next two days, Eric, led by Joma Ollila, visited Nokia's headquarters campus in Espoo, and participated in Nokia's board meeting, roughly confirming Nokia's next management candidate.

After being busy until Friday morning, Eric was free to take Caroline to visit Espoo and Helsinki.

Whether it is Espoo or Helsinki, the feeling for Eric is just two words, whatever. The streets of the two cities have no sense of planning, and the winding turns vary in width and width. There are various kinds of trees or shrubs on both sides of the road. The residential and office buildings of various styles also seem to have no sense of direction. Here, the whole city seems to be silently telling everyone a subtext: let's make do with it.

The only cathedrals worth seeing in Helsinki didn't have much appeal to an unbeliever like Eric.

After all, Finland is really not a great place to travel.

After just shopping for a long time, Eric completely lost interest. Caroline would be very satisfied as long as she could get along with Eric alone, but she felt that Eric's interest was lacking, and Caroline offered to return. hotel.

After lunch, Eric bid farewell to Yoma Ollila.

At two o'clock in the afternoon in Helsinki, Eric and his entourage boarded a private jet to London.

The plane just took off, and Mayer, who did not follow Eric to play in Helsinki in the morning, told Eric that Steve Case, CEO of America Online, called Eric's hotel in the morning. Others have come to London and want to meet Eric in private.

These days, Firefly Investments and the AOL management have been secretly playing games. Now that the showdown has come to an end, Eric didn't expect Steve Case to come over.

Sitting down in the cabin study, Eric asked, "Did he say anything else besides meeting?"

Mayer shook his head and said, "No, Mr. Case just offered to talk to you in person on the phone."

"Then tomorrow morning."

After thinking for a moment, Eric nodded in agreement, and then looked at the file that was a foot thick on the desk in front of him.

These are the R&D project information of each R&D center that Eric asked Nokia to prepare, and they are only non-confidential projects. The research and development project that is still in a state of secrecy, Eric just took Caroline and the two to listen to a simple oral presentation by the executives of Nokia's technology department, and signed several non-disclosure agreements for this purpose.

Nokia currently employs 60,000 people around the world, one-third of which are technical R&D personnel.

There are more than 120 project R&D teams in seventeen R&D centers under Nokia. The R&D goals range from the gprs data transmission standard to the change of the color of the indicator light when the lithium battery is fully charged. Symbian system, Bluetooth technology, wireless application protocol (wap), mobile device processor chips and other technologies that were familiar to all mobile phone users, Nokia has now begun to get involved.

It can be said that Nokia has been making technical reserves since the late 1990s in the technology fields that need to be applied in the smartphone era. Compared with Nokia, the newly developed Firefly Electronics can only be regarded as a toddler.

However, recalling the mobile phone products that Nokia launched in the past dynasties with few breakthroughs in his memory, Eric found that more than 90% of the various technologies that Nokia invested heavily in research and development may not be used. to Nokia's new products.

Picking up a copy of the introduction document of the gprs data transmission standard and flipping through it, Eric pushed the pile of documents in front of him to Mayer on the opposite side: "Hey, take a look first, and write a post after reading it. Give me a report on which of these technologies you think needs to be continued in depth and which projects can be cut based on the need to develop smartphones."

During the two-day visit to Nokia, Eric has roughly explained to Mayer his idea of ​​smartphone research and development.

Mayer heard the words, but his expression was a little hesitant: "Eric, my knowledge of Nokia is still very limited. I am afraid that it is inappropriate for me to judge these."

Eric smiled and said: "You just need to write according to your own ideas. I just want to see how your judgment is. You don't think I will execute according to your ideas, right?"

Mayer smiled a little embarrassedly, nodded and said, "That's fine."

The private jet landed at London's Heathrow International Airport three hours later. The time difference between London and Helsinki was only two hours, and the time here was just after three o'clock in the afternoon.

Taking the car sent by the British branch into downtown London, looking at the buildings on both sides of the street, Eric felt inexplicably much more comfortable. Although the architectural styles of different streets in London are different, on many streets, every villa is uniform, whether it is the same style or color, which is a paradise for perfectionist obsessive-compulsive patients.

Probably because of municipal laws, there are no huge billboards that can be found on the streets of New York or Los Angeles in the city of London. Therefore, when the car passed by a cinema, Eric was easily attracted by a not too big wide poster of "The Matrix" outside the cinema. Although it was still in the afternoon, there was still a long queue outside the cinema, and Eric could still see a few young people who imitated Keanu Reeves in the trench coat and sunglasses in The Matrix.

Today is the release date of The Matrix 2.

"The Matrix 2" was produced by Amberlin, but distributed by Amberlin and Paramount Pictures. Although Amberlin Pictures aims to use the "Matrix" series to expand its own distribution channels, the strength of the other party can only guarantee independent distribution in the United States for the time being, and most overseas markets still rely on Paramount's distribution channels.

Depending on the situation, Paramount has done a good job of synchronizing its films overseas.

According to the time difference, the East Coast of North America should have just started the morning screening, and the midnight box office information has probably been released.

However, since it was already poured out, Eric didn't care too much about "The Matrix 2". If it was filmed according to the Wachowski brothers' script, fans would still buy it, and Eric had nothing to say.

On the other hand, the box office of the second week of "The Day After Tomorrow" is estimated to have been sent to his work mailbox by now.

The group arrived at the mansion on Garden Street in Kensington, Eric got out of the car, looked at Caroline who came down together, and said, "I'll let Carter take you home, I'll finish my busy work tomorrow, Zhou Let's go see your aunt again, okay?"

"Well," Caroline nodded, said goodbye to Eric, and got into the car again.

Eric asked Carter Moen a few words, watched him drive Caroline away, and sent the other three bodyguards away. Kensington Garden Street can be said to be the most secure block in London, and there is no need for it. Bodyguards are always by your side.

When the others left, Eric noticed Mayer beside him.

"I forgot you," said Eric with a smile, "There's no need to look for a hotel anymore, then just stay here tonight. This apartment is still very big."

Mayer's little heart thumped a few times, feeling her cheeks warm slightly, but nodded obediently.

Because Eric was coming over, the mansion was cleaned just yesterday, and it looked spotless.

Eric opened the door, moved in a few simple pieces of luggage with Mayer, and took Mayer upstairs to arrange a room for her.